In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:02:46 -0800: Hi, [snip] >This is an interesting and potentially important article, but to divulge a >bit - "nano" is not required to exceed Carnot. Probably helps though. > > > >In fact, almost 50 years ago, working for NASA on a project which was >patented and then discontinued (go figure) . Eugene Laumann exceeded the >Carnot limitation at the many kilowatt level - with a hydrogen powered >diesel. It was possibly OU given the losses - but that claim was carefully >avoided. The term "OU" was not even around then. > > > >This particular power supply was intended for space (in a closed cycle with >photoelectric water splitting) - but NASA switched to AMTEC for weight >reduction - and then ignored the ICE results for many years. After all, >gasoline was below 50 cents a gallon so you cannot blame them. > > > >Several years ago Eugene Laumann, who was in his eighties and almost blind, >provided copies of his papers and data, some of which are not online at >DTIC. The grand hope is to renew that work someday, in the context of LENR. >He did these experiments using ultra-high compression and an extremely lean >fuel mix (all the fuel was H2 at well below the published flammability >level). > > > >Laumann was yet another of many excellent but overlooked scientists who were >way ahead of NASA in civilian relevance - decades ago, who did experiments >that would be called "groundbreaking" today. "fonly" (as they say) the USA >was not now a debtor nation, and also had the good sense to look though its >own "cold case" files. > > > >BTW - for those who have followed the overlap of LENR and CQM - the >"lattice" (substitute for a metal lattice) in this design, assuming that >LENR may have been involved (which is not proved or even claimed) - was >provided by mostly argon atoms squeezed to several hundred bar at TDC. where >their effective density was similar to a metal lattice. A lattice of >extremely high mobility, shall we say?
Note that Ar+ is a Mills catalyst. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
